Help! Photos too red? Color management Confusion

James33 wrote in post #8074353
Ok - new discovery. When I click the SAVE FOR WEB AND DEVICES it gives me a preview of the file. It is RED RED RED - yet the file I am editing looks perfect.... It's like when it saves it, it adds a ton of red to it. Does that help? Is there a setting that is doing that when I save the file????

As I mentioned earlier, your images look the same on my monitor inside and outside of Photoshop (with and without color management). I'm wondering about your calibration. Have you tried re-calibrating from factor default settings?

And I have my color space set for Abobe RGB, not sRGB.... Still don't think it is supposed to work like this....

Peano wrote in post #8074787
As I mentioned earlier, your images look the same on my monitor inside and outside of Photoshop (with and without color management). I'm wondering about your calibration. Have you tried re-calibrating from factor default settings?

Thanks for being patient. I have not tried resetting my monitor to default factory settings. It doesn't give color temps but crap like GAME, INTERNET, WEB, etc. No idea what those settings are. It's a Samsung Syncmaster 2693HM. Guess I can try that tomorrow..... Still I have images to edit NOW and I'll just test them out in other apps to see what they look like before I upload them.

James33 wrote in post #8074780
Think I have it figured out... When I save as a JPG, it had under the save options in the window, a box for color that read ICC Profile: sRGB that was checked.

That doesn't fit with this:

James33 wrote in post #8074877
And I have my color space set for Adobe RGB, not sRGB.... Still don't think it is supposed to work like this....

James33 wrote in post #8074780
It also had the same option in SAVE FOR WEB AND DEVICES. When I deselected this box, what was on the screen matched my output in everything. Maybe it was applying the ICC Profile twice or something???? Anyway, does anyone see anything really wacko by unchecking this box?

What are your "Save for web" previews set to? (See https://photography-on-the.net …0&highlight=Mon​itor+color)

On your screenshots: The one where you have set North America Web / internet set:
The image you have open (_MG_2672.CR2) has *no embedded profile*. So in effect it'll have sRGB *assigned* (since you didn't tick the "missing profiles" dialog box.)
(This will probably lead to an image that doesn't look red enough on your monitor)

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James33 wrote in post #8074901
Thanks for being patient. I have not tried resetting my monitor to default factory settings.

I wasn't suggesting that you restore default settings. I was referring to re-calibrating starting from factory default settings.

I'm totally confused now about your color settings. You showed settings with sRGB as the default working space and then later said you're using aRGB. I think the root of the problem is that you've got your color settings all hosed up.

Peano wrote in post #8079526
I wasn't suggesting that you restore default settings. I was referring to re-calibrating starting from factory default settings.

I'm totally confused now about your color settings. You showed settings with sRGB as the default working space and then later said you're using aRGB. I think the root of the problem is that you've got your color settings all hosed up.

Sorry for confusing you - I have been switching from Adobe RGB back to sRGB to see which worked the best. I have no idea if the default settings are even close to what I should be using on my Monitor - they are usually over bright and saturated. Would the calibration fix all of that regardless of how it was set?

James33 wrote in post #8079867
Sorry for confusing you - I have been switching from Adobe RGB back to sRGB to see which worked the best. I have no idea if the default settings are even close to what I should be using on my Monitor - they are usually over bright and saturated. Would the calibration fix all of that regardless of how it was set?

No, after you calibrate, you still have to get your color settings right ("right" depending on the particular kind of editing you do).